School exclusions are harming young people and exacerbating their mental health issues.
Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)1 published in September 2017 made grim reading. They found that at least one in two pupils permanently excluded from schools had a mental health issue, and only one in a hundred children who had been permanently excluded from mainstream schools went on to achieve five good GCSE grades which is the passport to employment.
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